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This paper does still count for your request, since it has an English language online version - Novaya Gazeta from Russia. This is one of the trustworthy news sources from Russia. Most news outlets in Russia are state owned, but this one is a rare occurrence of the paper's staff controlling 51%. This, however, is not the reason why I find the paper trustworthy. It is a bit of a grim statistic, but Novaya Gazeta has more journalists killed than any other news outlet in Russia. The majority of whom were either murdered by the state, or at least the state turned a blind eye to their death.

This next one is Russian-language only, and a radio station in Moscow. But it is a fairly good, unbiased news source. It's called Echo Moskvy or Echo of Moscow.

Unfortunately, one of the best English language news sources in Moscow, The eXile, closed its doors a few years ago. There are two possible reasons: one, that the paper was harassed into closing by the government. Or that the editor, Mark Ames, was tired and used some light harassment from the government as an excuse to close shop. Either way, it used to be a good source of insanely funny gonzo journalism with a constant streak of hard-hitting honest journalism.

The only thing I've noticed to be actually true is that there really are a lot of good looking Russian women. something in the water over there?

Natural selection.

I found this even more amusing:

http://www.exile.ru/upload/iblock/93b/3.gif

someone in the india ministry of defense should google "french military victories"

Thanks for the recommendation. I found this, which was interesting:

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7061&IBLOCK_ID=35

Read about small boats and aircraft did during US war games under Gen. Paul van Ripen.
U Sank My Carrier! By Gary Brecher
http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6779
"send everything at once"

A beautiful city! It is home to the world's first three peacetime nuclear disasters. You can read up on the place in the Exile.

Why yes, that's the definition of the "free market": The only law that they don't see as inhibiting that "freedom", is the law of the jungle. All others will be up for removal, as soon as they get people to accept that.
It's the opposite of democracy. (Yes that's right Neocons, you can only choose one.)

The company that can go furthest, and does it, wins. Every time.
So if you manage to get away with murder, and the other company doesn't, you win.

Just look at Russia, where this is actual reality: http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13442&IBLOCK_ID=35&PAGE=3

A good introduction to the siloviki is on the Exile: http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13442&IBLOCK_ID=35

How can you be sure of that diagnosis? Russian doctors are notoriously famous for their absurd medical practices.
I doubt they ran all the tests with proper equipment. As a matter of fact, I even doubt they had the equipment.

Enjoy reading the Roving Russophobe's article on Russian doctors.

Raw materials are back under state control, pensions are paid and lights are on?
or "The Kremlin’s Clan Warfare: The Putin Era Ends" http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13442&IBLOCK_ID=35

The War Nerd addresses this point exactly. Carriers are big, floating sea-tombs.

Found it! http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7948&IBLOCK_ID=35. You have to scroll down about half of the page to see it, though.

Anyone who gets their history lessons from Maddox's "The Best Page in the Universe" is a FUCKING. MORON.

And now, for a funny retort to that list, the War Nerd.

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7606&IBLOCK_ID=35 Gary Brecher, the War Nerd, is the best military analyst there is these days, and he's written several articles about what an unprecedented f-up this is going to be

http://exile.ru/print.php?ARTICLE_ID=7061&IBLOCK_ID=35

This page may help you out

http://www.exile.ru/transient/151/europeans-chart.html

The one for the Balkans is hilarious.

I suggest you spend more time educating yourself rather than playing games. The most ferocious suicide bombers are not muslims.

http://old.exile.ru/2003-June-26/war_nerd.html

That's their trick

http://exile.ru/blog/detail.php?BLOG_ID=15042

Better analsyis here (start halfway down)

link

probably contains lots of things which would be news to someone who's only read western news stories on k

That murder had nothing to do with the victims spam activities:

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7845&IBLOCK_ID=35

You should read this

"There are two kinds of ship in the US Navy: subs and targets." http://www.exile.ru/2002-December-11/war_nerd.html

The War Nerd had a a good piece about anti-ICBM (second half of his article): http://www.exile.ru/2006-July-15/the_war_nerd.html

We would attack Russia if we could do so with impunity, and if it were profitable in some way. The only way to do so at this time is to unleash the force of our think tanks. The wars of attrition are typically won by the side with better economy, not the better military. But best wars are won without a single bullet being fired. We flood their country with NGO's led by celebrity expatriates; we finance their political opposition, and then express outrage at their reaction to our "honorable" intentions.

Read about it http://www.exile.ru/2006-October-06/venezuela_ench ilada_of_evil.htmlVenezuela: Enchilada of Evil

http://www.exile.ru/2003-October-02/war_nerd.html.

Me no French.

As we all have all seen recently, it doesn't really matter how powerful an arsenal we have. In the war of conquest, nothing works short of genocide. Wake me up when they come up with something against tandem warhead RPG's and snipers.

"In Iraq and Afganistan, the problems are quite obviously ones of leadership."

Whose?

As far as I can see, as long as the US isn't willing to commit outright genocide, this war can continue forever. For every Iraqi killed (insurgent or otherwise), several of his cousins are motivated to plant a roadside bomb or take a pot shot at a US soldier. And they keep reproducing at above replacement rates.

And bingo for most of the other countries the US might want to invade and occupy.

For this weapon to be useful in anything other than the conventional invasion phase of another country, it will still require intelligence of what/who to fire at. That will require people on the ground, who will still be vulnerable to roadside bombs. And it will still require torture to get information out of people, winning yet more hearts and minds.

The War Nerd has a good article on this.

http://www.exile.ru/2006-November-17/how_to_win_in _iraq.html

World War II is WAY overrated.

"another lesson of this war is that the era of the automatic rifle as basic small arm may be ending." - the "War Nerd".

I think that if intelligent unmanned drones become prevalent (currently drones require a large operations staff), we will finally run in to the issue of reducing the number of autonomous moral agents. If the second amendment is no longer effective due to the asymmetry of modern military versus individuals, then the remaining key is autonomous morality.

Ok, the cold war was won by outspending the enemy through insane amounts of technology.
But you have to realize that this really was psychological.
And it works both ways.
If you have nothing but money to go against will power then you will eventually go broke.
Think of a suicide bomber as a very cheap and very smart self guided missile.
Compare this to the millions of dollars a single cruise missile costs.
If you want to win modern asymetric wars, then you will have to do what is necessary.
Not what you fancy.

http://www.exile.ru/2006-November-17/how_to_win_in _iraq.html

Even the Cold War didn't have this much excitement. One needs to go back at least to the days of the courts of Medici and Borgia. Who needs puerile "Da Vinci Code" conspiracies when you can have this?

And what about what's going on in the rest of the world -- you know, wars, bombings, murders, corruption, lies? Forget it! The increasingly hopeless and idiotic quagmire in Iraq looks like common banditry, devoid of imagination and suspense. Who cares that it killed roughly half a million Iraqis and thousands of Americans? Boooring!!! Can you imagine - once we were amazed that the thieves who ran Enron or WorldCom pulled off outrageous multi-billion-dollar thefts. How plebeian -- why would anybody but accounting bookworms remember this? Everything seems so quaint in comparison to the Litvinenko murder. It's like comparing Pong to the PS3 console. As for tens of billons of taxpayer dollars disappearing into the black hole of "Iraq reconstruction" - or into the pockets of Halliburtons and Bechtels and other Republican cronies - whoa, keep the change, bro, don't distract us from the really important stuff: all we want to know is, who killed the "former spy" with a tiny speck of polonium!

How insightful, fucktard.

http://www.exile.ru/2003-October-02/war_nerd.html

see here

The Arab side is finally getting some smart people. They've been fighting dumb for decades, but at long last, the opposition is getting a clue. Read "A Hezbollah Upon All of Thee!", by the War Nerd, a cynical and insightful commentator.

For the last decade or so, Israel and the US have been kicking around Arafat's people, who have ineffective tactics, the Taliban, which has no resources, and Saddam Hussein, one of the worst military leaders of the last century. But now the opposition is getting tougher. Hezbollah has the right weapons and the right tactics to put a dent in Israeli armor. They have an effective TV operation, al-Manar, which stays up despite Israeli bombing attacks. The Iraqui insurgency knows how to attack US troops, something Saddam never figured out: let them move in and act like they own the place, then start nibbling away. They'll retreat to overprotected firebases, at which point they're ineffective at controlling the country.

Hezbollah has a certain style. Throughout the Israeli attacks, their TV news crews stayed on the air, reporting the battles. Their leader appeared, calm and unruffled. After they won (and yes, they did), they started the business of repairing the damage to Lebanon. Damaged areas were marked off with yellow police tape preprinted with victory slogans.

It's the Internet generation. Islamic education is nearly useless; at the elementary level, it's memorizing the Koran; at the graduate level, over 90% of Saudi doctorates are in theology, But between cell phones, satellite TV, and Internet access, the Islamic world is starting to get some information about how to get things done. Games are a good way to get your message across, especially in countries where most people are young people. And they do teach some useful skills.

Yes, the Islamic world is stuck with a nutcase religion that holds them back, but so is Bush's base.

Nukes are worth more than other other weapon in bargaining.
http://www.google.com/search?q=north+korea+concess ions

With that said, if you want to read about The War Nerd saying Venezuela's new jets and helicopters is a waste of money for war: http://www.exile.ru/2006-October-06/venezuela_ench ilada_of_evil.html

Let's see, off the top of my head, Gary Brecher, Matt Taibbi, Mark Ames or John Dolan.

Of course, those are all eXile alumns, and one of them is probably a Nom de Guerre, but I'm sure others can be found if you look hard enough.

And did you ever hear of something called the American Revolution? Just curious.

Well France won't consider it slander, because only retards would believe that shit.
  http://www.exile.ru/2003-October-02/war_nerd.html

You're also forgetting that the U.S. government had ALREADY planned to do similar sorts of things, including terroist attacks on U.s. soil and drone airplanes being blown up, back in JFK's time, (google: "operation northwood"), so they thought it was do-able then, and now the poeple involved in this REALLY run the media, so it makes it even easier. Plus many people who you might think would have to be in it where just following orders, being misled, confused by the millitary excercises on the day, or unable to do anything about it (google john o'neill for someone that knew things and tried to make people listen, see what happened to him. )

also I wonder, did you KNOW (not just read on a conspiracy website like you might about this)about the stealth bomber all those years ago when it was first made? What about pearl harbour? have you ever looked closely at what happened there? The fact that I could write all those points earlier proving (in my mind at least) that there was a conspiracy (not muslim) says that they did muck it up, the public is just too brainwashed for it to matter.

Ahhh! At least! The great ancient moronic military joke from the great american Anonymous Coward. If you are so proud of your military accomplishments, why do you hide yourself as a AC? Fucktard.

The French

Or if you're interested in a less factually challenged overview, try this military history geek's column: http://www.exile.ru/2003-October-02/war_nerd.html

I thought only USians fell for that bullshit. France has spent most of her history at war and is damn good at it.

You might want to look at some actual history instead of sound bites by someone with an agenda.

"What's more American than peanut butter and jelly?"

Sure you want to know?

Here's his original review of the book, which is also quite amusing: Clicky!

The Exile's a pretty good read overall.

Real life couldn't produce such crap.

John Nolan exposed this "self-aggrandizing, simple-minded, poorly observed, repetitious, maudlin drivel" in his July 2003 review A Million Pieces of Shit.

An excerpt:
"I step forward and I hug her. There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched."

You be the judge.

John Nolan was also one of the first (the first?) to publicly call Frey a liar in a reviewreview of Freys next (even worse book).